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Monitor Audio's slender Gold 200 floor-standing speaker takes up surprisingly little floor space, but there's nothing small about its sound. This speaker's rich midrange, taut, tuneful bass, and smooth, airy highs will fill your listening room, and bring your music to life. As part of Monitor's latest Gold series lineup, the Gold 200 offers all of the goodness that made previous Monitor Audio Gold speakers so exceptional, while adding refinements that enhance its performance.

Room-filling performance from an elegant, compact tower

Monitor Audio's slender Gold 200 floor-standing speaker takes up surprisingly little floor space, but there's nothing small about its sound. This speaker's rich midrange, taut, tuneful bass, and smooth, airy highs will fill your listening room, and bring your music to life. As part of Monitor's latest Gold series lineup, the Gold 200 offers all of the goodness that made previous Monitor Audio Gold speakers so exceptional, while adding refinements that enhance its performance.

Continuing advancements in driver design for even better sound

Refined ribbon tweeters

For their latest Gold series speakers, Monitor Audio again relies on their acclaimed ribbon transducers. Made from ultra-thin layers of a ceramic-coated aluminum/magnesium alloy developed by the aerospace industry for jet engines, these ultra low-mass ribbons effortlessly deliver extended high-frequency response out to 60,000 Hz. To increase performance even further, Monitor has tightened manufacturing tolerances to allow these capable drivers to offer consistently more open and transparent sound. Greater production uniformity also means closer matching of tweeter pairs in a stereo system, providing enhanced imaging and a greater sense of detail.

Newly designed woofer cones

The speaker's tight, responsive bass and dynamic mids come courtesy of Monitor's twin 5-1/2" C-CAM woofers and 4" midrange with RST® (Rigid Surface Technology). Created from the same lightweight alloy as the tweeters, these drivers are strengthened and stiffened even further using a dimpled RST cone surface. The cone also takes the form of a continuous radiating dish, eliminating the central voice-coil opening and dust cap to allow a longer voice coil and larger motor to sit behind the cone. This more efficient assembly provides greater drive force, longer excursions, and lower distortion, for cleaner, more extended and accurate bass definition.

Side-by-side listening tests at Monitor Audio comparing previous models demonstrated that the new Gold models sound more open and dynamic, with a soundstage that is both taller and wider than the previous model.

Attention to detail, inside and out

Wired for transparent sound

Meticulous engineering and hours of focused listening go into each Gold series speaker. The Gold 200's woofer, midrange, and tweeter are connected to an equally sophisticated crossover network made with audiophile-grade components. Monitor also chose their Pureflow® Silver cabling to make all internal connections. Together, these refinements give you a smoother, flatter frequency response, more powerful dynamics, and faster transients, for sound with real presence and immediacy.

Meticulous, vault-like cabinet construction

Instead of conventional mounting screws, each driver is held in place using a single tensioned rod, or through-bolt, that threads into its back plate, then secures to the back of the cabinet. The bolt not only acts as a rigid cabinet brace to reduce box coloration, it also eliminates the need for traditional driver mounting hardware, effectively decoupling the driver and front baffle to eliminate another source of unwanted resonance.

Monitor Audio speakers have long been known for their sturdy, vault-like cabinet construction. The Gold 200's well-damped, cross-braced enclosure features a curved profile with large-radius edges. This design helps further increase cabinet rigidity while reducing both external diffraction and internal standing waves that can color sound and reduce accuracy.

Gorgeous, furniture-grade finishes

The speaker's exterior comes clad in a mirror-like black piano lacquer or real walnut veneer finish. Eleven layers of lacquer are built-up individually to achieve a luxuriously deep finish. Once assembled the real-wood cabinets are hand finished to ensure absolute precision in the joinery and in the grain matching between each pair. Monitor tops off each speaker with an attractive "floating" magnetic cloth grille that features invisible attachments to give the Gold 200s a clean, classic look whether you use them with the grilles on or off.

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Average Review:

My advice try it with our own amplifier it can make a big difference. My Cyrus 8xpd did not match at all, too bright, too thin, music fatique.
Now I have the Arcam A39 and now it near perfect.
A good powercord is also reconmended.

Monitor Audio Gold 200 Reviews

Best speakers I've heard

Not sure what more I could want from a pair of speakers. I'm using them with an integrated analog amplifier and they're outstanding. Brilliant highs and mids with decent bass. They also look very classy in the room with their outstanding finish on the cabinets. My only possible regret is that I didn't go for the gold 300's.

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Perfect speakers

Theo from Heemskerk Holland on 5/29/2017

My advice try it with our own amplifier it can make a big difference. My Cyrus 8xpd did not match at all, too bright, too thin, music fatique.
Now I have the Arcam A39 and now it near perfect.
A good powercord is also reconmended.

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Best Purchase !

bargain hunter from Berne on 2/23/2016

The new Gold 200 is one of the best speaker designs ever, both visually and technically, considering the price / quality relation. The finish is nearest to perfect and so is the sound: Authentic, sharply focussed mids, sparkling and natural highs. Last but not least a near perfect bass performance, both very fast and tuneful. Imaging ist very good, with a expanded lateral soundstage which is very deep at the same time. I couldn't think of what to want more ..........

C-CAM Ribbon Tweeter: Monitor Audio's proprietary
ribbon tweeter design uses an ultra-thin sandwich of C-CAM alloy suspended
in a powerful transverse magnetic field of high energy NeFeB rare earth
magnets. The ribbon serves as both voice coil and radiating diaphragm, with
every part of the ribbon driven directly and simultaneously without energy
storage. Having a mass of just 18mg, its diaphragm is able to start and stop
in an instant, producing a transient response capable of defining the
leading edge and natural harmonic resonance of complex musical sounds.
Specified to reach ultra-high frequencies, this ribbon tweeter will
reproduce with ease every last nuance and detail from vinyl, CD, DVD Audio,
and SACD, together with the wider bandwidth of Blu-ray or high resolution
digital audio.

C-CAM Cone Midrange Driver and Bass Woofers:
Ceramic-Coated Aluminum/Magnesium is a material originally developed by the
aerospace industry for jet engine components. Its properties are ideal for
loudspeaker cones being extremely rigid, yet light enough to yield high
overall efficiency. In manufacture, aluminum/magnesium alloy undergoes a
three-stage stress-relieving process to remove surface deformation and
molecular weakness. Once formed, the alloy cone is subjected to a high
temperature anodic coating process in which a layer of pure ceramic alumina
is depleted onto its surfaces to a depth of 50 microns, producing a
completely rigid sandwich of alloy and heat-dissipating ceramic material.
Conventional cones are liable to flex or twist in operation, producing a
significant level of audible distortion. C-CAM cones have a much higher
resistance to bending stress and therefore exhibit much greater fidelity
over their entire operating range.

RST (Rigid Surface Technology): The Gold series
floorstanding speaker combines Rigid Surface Technology (RST) with its C-CAM
cone woofer design for a stronger, lighter weight cone. The Rigid Surface
Technology (RST) cone profile was inspired by the Japanese art of Origami, which
demonstrates how a very light material (like paper) can be strengthened and made
more rigid by making small and precise folds on it surface. Developed and
perfect using sophisticated computer modeling (Finite Element Analysis), the
Silver series midbass drivers have been strengthened by a pattern of dimples.
RST significantly increases cone rigidity, allowing the radiating surfaces to
resist mechanical bending forces, which can twist the shape of conventional
driver cones to produce distorted sound. The strengthening effect of RST means
that Monitor Audio can use thinner, lighter and more responsive C-CM cones which
provide speed and accuracy while offering greatly reduced distortion. The RST
patterns also help to displace standing waves that can propagate on the cone's
surface.

Single Through-Bolt Mount: The tweeter, midrange driver, and
bass woofers are fixed to the cabinet with single through-bolt driver fixing
mounts. This single-through-bolt mount design provides mechanical de-coupling
and enhanced midband clarity and resolution. The through-bolts also act as rigid
cross bracing to give a very solid non-resonant cabinet.

MDF Curved Enclosure w/ Magnetic Grille: The G200 employs a
MDF enclosure for accurate, uncolored sound. Rigid 20mm MDF construction is used
throughout the enclosure with radial and cross-bracing techniques for high
rigidity and low cabinet coloration. In addition, the curved cabinet profile
aids in increased rigidity and reduced internal standing waves. In addition, the
tower speaker comes with a magnetic grille.

HiVe II Bass Reflex Port: The G200 uses a bass reflex
cabinet (single rear firing port) with Monitor Audio's HiVe II port design for
greater efficiency and bigger bass response from a slim tower speaker. The HiVe
II bass reflex port is shaped to have the same effect on airflow as a gun-barrel
on a bullet. Rifled grooves inside the port help to accelerate the flow and
reduce turbulence, so air moves in and out of the port more efficiently, for a
faster more dynamic bass response.

Note: If the bass is too boomy, you can insert the included
foam port plug into the speaker's rear-firing port to tighten and lessen the
bass.

Dual Gold-Plated Binding Posts: The floorstanding
loudspeaker has two sets of gold-plated binding posts connected by wire-jumpers.
The gold-plated binding posts will accept bare wire (up to 10AWG), pin
connectors, & banana plugs (single only). Using the dual posts, you can bi-wire
or bi-amp the speaker. Bi-wiring or bi-amping the speaker provides improved bass
& treble performance. If you decide to bi-wire or bi-amp, you must remove the
jumpers between the terminal posts (failure to do this could result in damage to
your amplifier and loudspeakers).

Bi-Wiring: Bi-wiring can provide noticeable
improvements in the overall transparency of your loudspeakers. Run separate
speaker wires to the low & high frequency drivers from a single amplifier
(the upper set of binding posts are for the high frequency drivers; the
lower set of binding posts are for the low frequency drivers).

Bi-Amping: Bi-amping allows you to use separate
amplifiers for the high & low frequency sections of your loudspeaker for
greater dynamic range & lower distortion. We recommend that your separate
amplifiers have identical gain to preserve the speaker's voicing balance.

Note: The binding-post speaker terminals are color-coded
(red+/black-) and are at floor-level for easy identification and hookup.

Base with Rubber or Spiked Feet: The Gold series 200
floorstanding speaker includes a two-piece base which will need to be installed
using the included bolts. The G200 comes with four rubber feet that screw into
the base for use on hardwood or tile floors. It also includes four spikes which
screw into the rubber feet for carpeted floors. The spike feet add approximately
0.875" to the height of the speakers versus the rubber feet.

Note: Due to the tapered shape of the cabinet, it is not
recommended to install the speaker without the base or feet, as the speaker
is likely to be unstable.

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